@jsoriano @aral sorry to pick nits, but I've been an avid XMPP user for a couple decades at this point, and my experience really wasn't affected much by the big players doing their walled garden dance. they brought in people who probably would never have used XMPP anyway. meanwhile, all the people who did use it kept using it after the big players walled themselves off, and that ecosystem continues to thrive.

I suspect the same is/will be true of the fediverse. which is not to say that having Meta or whoever joining is a good thing, just that I think there's a lot more resilience to their impact than one might think.